SEDGE FAMILY. 
94. Carex Crawei Dewey. Crawe’s 
Sedge. (Fig. 764.) 
Carex Crawet Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 2:246. 1846. 
Carex heterostachya Torr. Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 2: 248. 
1846. 
Glabrous, culms low, stiff, erect, 3/-15’ tall. 
Leaves rather stiff, flat, 1’/-2’’ wide, erect or nearly so, 
shorter than the culm, the bracts similar, rarely over- 
topping the spikes; staminate spikes 1-3, long-stalked; 
pistillate spikes 1-4, distant, cylindric, erect, %/—-1’ 
long, 2/’-3’ thick, densely many: flowered, stalked or 
the upper sessile, the lowest often borne near the base 
of the culm; perigynia ovoid, ascending, nerved, us- 
ually minutely resinous dotted, 1//-114’’ long, taper- 
ing into a very short entire beak; scales obovate or 
oval, thin, acute or cuspidate, shorter than the peri- 
gynia; stigmas 3. 
In moist meadows and on banks, Quebec to Manitoba, 
south to Pennsylvania and Tennessee. May-July. 
g5. Carex exténsa Gooden. _ 
(Fig. 765.) 
Carex extensa Gooden, Trans. Linn. Soe. 2: 175. 
g6. Carex flava L. Yellow Sedge. 
Carex flava I,. Sp. Pl. 975. 1753. 
Carex flava var. graminis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1: 
30. 1889. 
Glabrous yellow-green, culms yery slender but stiff 
and erect, smooth or nearly so, 1°-2° tall. Leaves 
1//-214’’ wide, flat, the radical shorter than or some- 
times exceeding the culm, the lower bract elongated, 
spreading or ascending; staminate spike solitary, 
stalked or sessile; pistillate spikes 1-4, oblong or glo- 
bose-oblong, erect, sessile and close together or the 
lower one distant and short-stalked, densely flowered, 
3/’-6” long, about 3’” thick; perigynia narrowly ovoid, 
yellow, and spreading or deflexed when mature, 2//— 
3’ long, strongly several-nerved, the subulate 2- 
toothed beak about as long as the body; scales lanceo- 
late or oval, acute or subacute, shorter and narrower 
than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
Sedge. 
Long-bracted 
1794. 
Glabrous, bright green, culms stiff, erect, 10’—2° 
tall. Leaves 1//-2/’ wide, strongly involute, erect, 
shorter than the culm, the lower bract similar, much 
exceeding the spikes, the upper shorter, sometimes 
deflexed; staminate spike sessile, rarely pistillate at 
the base; pistillate spikes 1-3, erect, sessile and close 
together or the lowest short-stalked and distant, ob- 
“long, densely many-flowered, 5//-8’’ long, about 3/’ 
thick; perigynia ovoid or ovoid-oblong, brown, 134’ 
long, uarrowed at the base, slightly swollen, strongly 
many-ribbed, tapering into a short stout 2-toothed 
beak; scales ovate, acute, brown with a greenish 
midvein, shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
Borders of salt meadows, Coney Island, N. Y., and 
near Norfolk, Va. Naturalized from Europe. June—Aug. 
(Fig. 766.) 
In swamps and wet meadows, Newfoundiand to the Northwest Territory, south to Rhode Island, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohioand Montana. Alsoin Europe. 
Carex Oéderi Ehrh., found by the late I. C. Martindale at Atco, N. J. (according to Prof. Bailey), 
is a waif from Europe, otherwise not known from America. 
